NUTHATCH. 65 



A. — Sitta minor, Bris. iii. 592. Id. 8vo. i. 475. Belon 305. 



La petite Sittelle, Buf. v. 470. 



Lesser Nuthatch, Gen. Syn. ii. 650. A. Shaiv's Zool. viii. 112. 



Belon describes this bird as being altogether like the other, but 

 much smaller, and far more noisy ; that it is seldom seen but in 

 company with its mate, and very quarrelsome ; for, on meeting with 

 another of its race, it attacks, and does not cease to fight, till the 

 enemy yields the victory. We suspect this to be a young bird of the 

 common sort. 



2— BLACK-HEADED NUTHATCH. 



Sitta Carolinensis, Ind.Om.i. 262. Lin.i. 177. /3. (Europsea). Bris. iii. 596. Id. 



8vo. i. 476. Am. Orn. pi. 2. f. 3. 

 Sittelle a tete noire, Buf. v. 473. Var. 5. 

 Smaller Loggerhead, Brown Jam. 475. 



White-breasted Black-capped Nuthatch, Am. Orn. pi. 2. f. 3. 

 Black-headed Nuthatch, Gen. Syn.'u. 650. B. Id. Sup. 117. Id. Sup. ii. 145. Arct. 



Zool. No. 171. Cates. Car. u 22. Bartram, 287. Shaw's Zool. viii. 112. 



LENGTH five inches and a quarter, in breadth eleven, weight 

 thirteen pennyweights five grains. Bill three quarters of an inch, 

 and black ; top of the head, and neck black, the rest of the parts 

 above cinereous, the under cinereous white, except the lower belly, 

 and under tail coverts, which are mixed with ferruginous ; quills 

 blackish, edged with cinereous; tail of twelve feathers, the two 

 middle ones cinereous, the next three black, tipped more or less with 

 white, most so on the outer webs, and all have the white on the tips 

 touched with black ; the others spotted with black and white ; legs 

 brown, hind claw large; the wings reach the end of the tail. 



Male and female alike. 



Inhabits Carolina, where it breeds, and remains the whole year. 



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